Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.

I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights...

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

We're in a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter... [Language] is being eroded -- it's changing. Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.